Para Educator

HOLT PUBLIC SCHOOLS
POSITION: PARAEDUCATOR

ABOUT OUR DISTRICT:

Holt Public Schools is located in the Lansing metropolitan region. It is primarily located in Ingham County with portions in Eaton County. We provide educational programs from Early Childhood through and beyond 12th grade including access to Early College programming and Career and Technical Education. Our current enrollment totals approximately 4,800 students. Our student body is approximately 45% persons of color with significant ethnic diversity and representation from historically marginalized groups. We employ approximately 800 employees and are committed to hiring and supporting a more diverse workforce.

Holt Public Schools is committed to creating an environment in which every member of our community is seen, heard, valued, and welcomed. Diversity, equity, and inclusion is essential to this endeavor.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Qualified and able to perform the work of student instructional support, student living needs assistance, student behavioral management, and student community-based support contained in the attached job responsibilities.
• Self-directed.
• High school diploma or successful completion of GED.
• Ability to establish and maintain positive, supportive relationships with students, parents, teachers, and administrators, and ability to work as a part of a team.
• Ability to perform functions as defined by the student’s IEP.
• Ability to transport a student weighing at least 100 pounds.
• Ability to adapt to working with a variety of staff in a variety of settings.
• Willingness and appropriately dressed to go out for recess everyday (if needed).
• Ability to work well with others in a cooperative setting of staff.
• Regular, reliable and punctual attendance.

DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Post-secondary coursework related to education or human service.
• Knowledge of adaptations useful to assist special education students.
• Basic computer competencies, knowledge, and ability to use office machines.
• Familiarity with special education disabilities.
• Knowledge of non-aversive behavior intervention techniques.

TESTING: The District will administer testing in the areas of reading, writing and /or mathematics for external applicants. Such testing will be a qualification for any position to determine whether an applicant possesses grade level competence for the position for which they are applying.

SPECIAL EDUCATION PARAEDUCATOR JOB RESPONSIBILITIES: A paraeducator assigned to special education students in a classroom or special education students in a program. The special education paraeducator's general task is to assist with various disability needs of special education students. While such needs will vary with each student(s) involved, such needs may include:

• assisting the teacher in planning and programming to achieve specific performance objectives of students and to support the needs of students in the learning environment, which includes, but is not limited to, tasks such as: individual instructional assistance and coaching, implementing one to one instruction with a student, facilitating small groups of special needs students, assisting the classroom or special education teacher as needed, assisting in testing, adapting* assignments (under the direction and supervision of the student's teacher), grading student work, using adaptive equipment with a special needs student, adapting* activities and/or materials for different levels of functioning (under the direction and supervision of the student's teacher), deliver students prompts and cues, collect and report data regarding student progress and behavior, communicating with parents (under the direction and supervision of the student's teacher), participating in staff meetings and problem solving, model and demonstrate to students appropriate responses, and other accommodations or adaptations* as identified in a student's IEP.
• to support and assist the day-to-day living needs of students, which includes, but is not limited to, tasks such as: assistance with bathroom needs, positioning student, cleaning, eating, medications, and other physical daily living needs.
• to support and assist in the behavior management plans of students and the creation and maintenance of a safe and orderly learning environment and dealing with special needs students whose behavior disrupts the learning environment or threatens the health and safety of the special education students, other students or staff, which includes, but is not limited to: handling disruptive students, including such techniques as physically restraining students, and non-physical methods of behavioral control, referring and taking students to the office for disciplinary reasons, and encourage peer-to-peer interactions with students.
• to support and assist students in community-based programs, which includes, but is not limited to: monitoring and assisting students in community-based work sites, social/recreational activities, and in the acquisition of community services, including reflecting and supplementing the goals in a student's IEP.
• As used in this document, adapting and adaptation means a change in the presentation of materials or in a method of testing or student assessment. This is distinguished from the term modifying, which means a change/alteration of curriculum to reflect a student's disability.
• Paraeducators are responsible for adaptation as indicated in this description. However, modification of curriculum is a responsibility of teaching staff and not paraeducators.

TO APPLY:

External Candidates: Complete an application online at: https://jobs.redroverk12.com/org/holtpublicschools/opening/102207

Posted until filled.

Holt Public Schools does not discriminate on the basis of sex or gender in the admission to or employment in its educational programs and activities. Questions may be referred to the Local Coordinator for Title IX, Erin Quinlan, Director of Human Resources, 5780 W. Holt Road, Holt MI 48842, 517-694-6392.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: From $17.86 per hour

Benefits:

• Employee assistance program
• Paid time off
• Parental leave
• Retirement plan

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday

Work Location: In person

Salary : $18